Author: omarhaleem

Omar Abdl-Haleem is a fourth generation Muslim in America. He has a BA from Al-Azhar University in Usul Al-Din, specializing in Hadith, and was about to finish his Master’s Degree from Al-Azhar in Hadith, when he had to leave Egypt for safety reasons in the fall of 2013. He has translated most of Ibn Al-Jawzi’s book: Sayd Al-Khatir into English, which he intends to complete (some episodes of Omar’s translation of this book have appeared in Aljumuah Website). He is also working on a Hadith book for English speakers that explains and teaches Mustalah Al-Hadith (Hadith Terminology) in common terms. His Arabic is native, having studied in Egypt since he was 14, and then full time after completion of High School in the US. He is invaluable for AlJumuah in accessing scholarly texts. He intends to complete his graduate studies in Hadith.

THE RATIONAL MAN is careful to uphold the positions of Allah even when it angers people. For he who takes the side of another at the price of the rights of the Creator, Allah turns the heart of the one he sought…

IN PAST ARTICLES, we discussed the obvious breaks in the chain of narrations and their effects on the ḥadîth. Now we turn to the kinds of breaks in the chain that are hidden and can only be discovered after scrutiny and comparison.…

HOW A ḤADÎTH is judged when links in the transmission chain are missing? What are the seven technical categories? Here the first two are discussed. Can any such a ḥadîth be taken as reliable? One of the possible defects in a ḥadîth narration…

ḤADÎTH NARRATIONS ARE considered mardûd (rejected) based on four discrepancies: Discrepancy in the continuity of the chain of narrators Discrepancy with one or more of the narrators Discrepancy in the chain of narrators Discrepancy in the Text One of the issues of continuity…

The Heading Have you not seen Al-Lât and Al-ʿUzza… [Sûrat Al-Najm, 53:19] The Human Chain of Narration for Hadith 4859 Bukhâri narrates: Muslim ibn Ibrâhîm told us that Abû Al-Ash-hab told us that Abû’l–Jawzâ’ told us that On the authority of…

The Wages of Youth I STUDIED THE conditions of people who attain glory or wealth. That’s just when the downfall of most comes. Behold the youthful among them: How excessive grows their sinful behavior; how neglectful they are of their chance for…

I HAVE SEEN that the inclination of the ‘self’ toward what it desires tends to grow in intensity, until it leans forward to so great an extent that it pulls with it the heart, the rationality, and the mind of a person,…

A THOUGHT OCCURRED to me in a religious gathering—when the sitting became pleasurable, and the hearts were present, and the eyes were flowing, and the heads were bowed, and the souls felt remorse for their negligence, and the resolution to fix their…

THE ḤADÎTH OF Heraclius continues, and Heraclius says to Abû Sufyân, after the latter answers his questions: If what you say is true, then his [that is, the Messenger of Allah’s ﷺ] kingdom will reach where my very feet are standing. And, indeed, I…

THE MOST IDIOTIC of people is the one who acts according to the present situation and neither envisions change nor anticipates possible scenarios. Take, for example, one who is deluded by political power. He acts according to his desires relying on his…